Bob CollinsIf someone didn’t do a podcast, someone would still be shrugging their shoulders at the suggestion that maybe an innocent person was wrongly imprisoned. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for June 2016
Mark O. Schultz, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., a bank executive; and Steven J. Schultz, 51, of Brooklyn Center, a Medtronic employee, were killed in the 2014 crash in western Minnesota. Read more →
Perhaps it figures that when a Republican and Democrat finally get together on bipartisan legislation in Congress, it intends to enrich fat cats and stiff people trying to make a living.
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Chris Rosati isn’t the first person with ALS to declare himself ‘the luckiest man on earth.’ Read more →
‘You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child.’ Anyone who’s ever been a parent will recognize that as, perhaps, the most accurate statement on parenting ever uttered.
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Miguel Sano uses his head to get an out in a minor league rehab assignment game. Read more →
We curmudgeonly types live for those moments when a friend or colleague (sometimes they’re one and the same) tells us that we’re right. [Insert cliched reference to it not happening that often here].
The subject: The transportation backwater that is Minnesota.
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If Dick Bancroft hadn’t come down from Saint Paul’s Summit Hill District as a young man, he might never have known the ‘invisible minority’ he champions so fiercely.
A lot of journalists, including a few at a local radio network, have come through the Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota newspaper. It will now be printed only twice a week. Read more →
Here’s a reminder that people who don’t get anywhere near enough attention are often the ones who make the biggest difference.
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A Minnesota man asserted that offering women for prostitution was similar to promoting consenting adults in a porn film and therefore protected speech under the First Amendment. Chief Justice Lorie Gildea said no. Read more →
A video from Woodbury makes a good case for a helmet law in Minnesota for motorcyclists. Read more →
The Star Tribune reports today that University of Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson has refused to cooperate with authorities investigating an alleged drug ring run by his team. Read more →
A whiteboard notice telling Edmonton workers they could be easily replaced amid the recession in Alberta has drawn online fire. Read more →
Hi there, Minneapolis. St. Paul, here.
Say, did you know Adele is coming to this town and not your town?
The Visit St. Paul marketing team did. Read more →